Selected Bibliography about Hikikomori: articles in English (1986-2012)

Selected Bibliography about Social Withdrawal (hikikomori) and School Absenteism (futôkô), from 1986 to 2012. All the references are academic articles, in English, except two in French and one in Italian.

Honma, Hiroaki. 1992. “Truancy from the school’s perspective and how schools cope: School related problems and network activities.” Japanese Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (35): 357–362.

Horiguchi, Sachiko. 2011. “Coping with Hikikomori. Socially withrdawn youth and the Japanese Family.” In Home and Family in Japan. Continuity and Transformation. Routledge.

———. 2012. “Hikikomori: How private isolation caught the public Eye.” In A sociology of Japanese youth, from returnees to neet. Routledge.

Inui, Akio. 2005. “Why Freeter and NEET are Misunderstood : Recognizing the New Precarious Conditions of Japanese Youth.” Social Work and Society (3).

Itoh, Kohki. 2012. “Difficulties faced by hikikomori: From the life history in autobiographies and private papers.” Kwansei Gakuin Sociological Review: 137–141.

Kaneko, Sachiko. 2006. “Japan’s ‘Socially Withdrawn Youths’ and Time Constraints in Japanese Society: Management and conceptualization of time in a support group for hikikomori.” Time & Society (15): 233–249.

Kim, Jinkwan, Rapee Ronald M, Ja Oh Kyung, and Moon Hye-Shin. 2008. “Retrospective report of social withdrawal during adolescence and current maladjustment in young adulthood: Cross-cultural comparisons between Australian and South Korean students.” Journal of Adolescence (31): 543–563.

Malagon,, A. 2010. “Hikikomori : a New Diagnosis or a Syndrome Associated With a Psychiatric Diagnosis ?” International Journal of Social Psychiatry 56 (5): 558–559.

Masataka, Nobuo. 2002. “Low anger-aggression and anxiety-withdrawal characteristic to preschoolers in Japanese society with ‘hikikomori’ is becoming a major social problem.” Early Education and Development (13): 187–199.

Miller, Aaron L. 2012. “Taibatsu. From educational solution to social problem to marginalized non-issue.” In A sociology of Japanese youth, from returnees to neet. Routledge.

Miller, Aaron L., and Tuuka Toivonen. 2010. “To Discipline or to Accomodate ? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese ‘Problem Youth’.” The Asia Pacific Journal.

Oghino, Tatsushi. 2004. “Managing categorization and social withdrawal in Japan : Rehabilitation process in a private support group for Hikikomorians.” International Journal of Japanese Sociology (13): 120–133.

Sakai, Motohiro, Shin.Ichi Ishikawa, Mizue Takizawa, Hiroshi Sato, and Yuji Sakano. 2004. “The State of Hikikomori from a Family’s Point of View: Statistical Survey and the Role of Psychological Intervention.” Japanese Journal of Counseling Science (37): 168–179.

Sakamoto, Noriyuki, Rodger R. Martin, Hiroaki Kumano, Kuboki Tomifusa, and Samir Al-Adawi. 2005. “Hikikomori, Is it A Culture-Reactive or Culture-Bound Syndrome? Nidotherapy And A Clinical Vignette from Oman.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (35): 191–198.

Teo, Alan R. 2010. “A New Form of social withdrawal in Japan: a review of hikikomori.” International Journal of Social Psychiatry 56 (2): 178–185.

———. 2012a. “Social isolation associated with depression: A case report of hikikomori.” International Journal of Social Psychiatry: 1–3.

———. 2012b. “Connecting the dots among hikikomori, loneliness, social support, and social networks.” In The 108th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, 364. Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Teo, Alan R., and Albert R. Gaw. 2010. “Hikikomori, a Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-5.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198 (6): 444–449.

Toivonen, Tuuka. 2008. “Introducing the Youth Independence Camp. How a new social policy is reconfiguring the public-private boundaries of social provision in Japan.” Sociologos (32): 42–57.

———. 2012. “NEETs.The strategy within the category.” In A sociology of Japanese youth, from returnees to neet. Routledge.

Uchida, Chiyoko. 2010. “Apathetic and withdrawing Students in Japanese Universities – with regard to Hikikomori and Student Apathy-.” Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences (57): 95–108.

Uchida, Yukiko, and Vinai Norasakkunkit. 2011. “Psychological Consequences of Postindustrial Anomie on Self and Motivation Among Japanese Youth.” Journal of Social Issues 67 (4): 774–786.

Umeda, Maki, and Noriko Kawakami, The World Mental Health Survey Group 2002-2006. 2012. “Association of childhood family environments with the risk of social withdrawal (‘hikikomori’) in the community population in Japan.” Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (66): 121–129.